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Interview with Dr. Juan Almendares
Date: 11/12/1992Call Number: SS 030AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dr. Juan Almendares on the social justice issues in Honduras.
Anti-Death Penalty Program
Date: 4/21/1992Call Number: JG/ 048Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This tape contains different material about the death penalty. It begins with a discussion between attacker and victim in support of death penalty abolishment (Dennis Tap - Victim; David Vargas - Attacker). The tape also includes Robert Alton Harris execution coverage (First Gas Chamber Execution in 25 years) with comments by the judge and bystanders.
Malcolm X Speaks Out - The CD
Malcolm X inspired people to act, to defend themselves and to defend their rights. He was recorded under all kinds of conditions - in radio studios, in front of crowds in Harlem, by reporters in London and los Angeles - and he was always electrifying. A compilation CD and Booklet With many graphics and some text, released by Curtis Management, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1992.
Rigoberta Menchu at Riverside Church
Rigoberta Menchu delivers a speech in which she asserts that her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize gives recognition to all indigenous people and contends that solving concrete problems are integral to human rights.
Rigoberta Menchu's Speech in Mexico about
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 032Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy ValeraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rigoberta Menchu speaks in Mexico in 1992 about her first novel, "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala". She refers to it as an instrument of peace and justice for those who suffer inequality socially, economically, culturally and politically in the world and a portal the denounce the human rights violations that had been going on in Guatemala and the world. Among other things she talks about the contributions the Mayan Civilization, the significance of respecting the earth, the need for peace, the need for discourse between different global communities and the dire situation facing indigenous communities (especially women) in Guatemala. Her speech is followed by music.
For the Children of Palestine
Event held for the children of Palestine - poets and writers express support for Palestine. Topics include child abuse, corrupt political power, self censorship, children in wartime, the masculine ideal, hunger, lost freedoms, displacement, and military brutalization. Issues are addressed through spoken word, poetry, stories, and songs.
Rigoberta Menchu Speaks
Rigoberta Menchu addresses the United Nations and calls for increased awareness and action on behalf of human and indigenous rights.
Malcolm X Speaks Out - The CD
Malcolm X inspired people to act, to defend themselves and to defend their rights. He was recorded under all kinds of conditions - in radio studios, in front of crowds in Harlem, by reporters in London and Los Angeles - and he was always electrifying. A compilation CD and Booklet With many graphics and some text, released by Curtis Management, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1992.
Militarism in El Salvador After the Peace Accords
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 127BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Focuses on the corruption and heavy involvement of military forces in drug trafficking and money laundering in El Salvador, as well as the outright subordination of public security over military police. President Cristiani’s decision to reduce the budget for public security, which was put into place after the end of the civil war, is a direct violation of the Peace Accords, which created the National Civil Police as an apolitical force to protect human rights.
USP Florence-Pelican Bay SHU
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 427Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Story on CNN in the 1990s. ADX Florence has been called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies” and CNN repeats the official government position that ADX Florence - the worst control unit prison - is a "place for prisoners who have committed crimes against other prisoners." One of the interviewee’s is political prisoner Oscar López-Rivera.
Special on Pelican Bay by 60 Minutes. Interviews include several prisoners and prison guards about their experiences in Pelican Bay. It also recounts how prisoners sued the state of California for human rights violations and torture.
